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Methods and models for safety benefit assessment of advanced driver assistance systems in car-to-cyclist conflicts
To help drivers avoid or mitigate the severity of crashes, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) can be designed to provide warnings or interventions. Prospective safety assessment of ADAS is important to quantify and optimise their safety benefit. Such safety assessment methods include, for example, virtual simulations and test-track testing.Today, there are many components of virtual safety assessment simulations with models or methods that are missing or can be substantially improved. This is particularly true for simulations assessing ADASs that address crashes involving cyclists—a crash type that is not decreasing at the same rate as the overall number of road crashes in Europe. The specific methodological gaps that this work addresses are: a) computational driver models for car-to-cyclist overtaking, b) algorithms for model fitting and efficient calculation of ADAS intervention time, and c) a method for merging data from different data sources into the safety assessment.Specifically, for a), different driver models for everyday driver behaviour while overtaking cyclists in a naturalistic driving setting were derived and compared. For b), computationally efficient algorithms to fit driver models to data and compute ADAS intervention time were developed for different types of vehicle models. The algorithms can be included in ADAS both for offline use in virtual assessment simulations and online real-time use in in-vehicle ADAS. Lastly, for c), a method was developed that uses Bayesian statistics to combine results from different data sources, e.g., simulations and test-track data, for ADAS safety benefit assessment.In addition to presenting five peer-reviewed scientific publications, which address these issues, this compilation thesis discusses the use of different data sources; introduces the fundamentals of Bayesian inference, linear programming, and numerical root-finding algorithms; and provides the rationale for methodological choices made, where relevant. Finally, this thesis describes the relationships among the publications and places them into context with existing literature.This work developed driver models for the virtual simulations and methods for the reliable estimation of the prospective safety benefit, which together have the potential to improve the design and the evaluation of ADAS in general, and ADAS for the car-to-cyclist overtaking scenario in particular
AI on the Road: A Comprehensive Analysis of Traffic Accidents and Accident Detection System in Smart Cities
Accident detection and traffic analysis is a critical component of smart city
and autonomous transportation systems that can reduce accident frequency,
severity and improve overall traffic management. This paper presents a
comprehensive analysis of traffic accidents in different regions across the
United States using data from the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS). To address the
challenges of accident detection and traffic analysis, this paper proposes a
framework that uses traffic surveillance cameras and action recognition systems
to detect and respond to traffic accidents spontaneously. Integrating the
proposed framework with emergency services will harness the power of traffic
cameras and machine learning algorithms to create an efficient solution for
responding to traffic accidents and reducing human errors. Advanced
intelligence technologies, such as the proposed accident detection systems in
smart cities, will improve traffic management and traffic accident severity.
Overall, this study provides valuable insights into traffic accidents in the US
and presents a practical solution to enhance the safety and efficiency of
transportation systems.Comment: 8,
Driver-centric Risk Object Identification
A massive number of traffic fatalities are due to driver errors. To reduce
fatalities, developing intelligent driving systems assisting drivers to
identify potential risks is in urgent need. Risky situations are generally
defined based on collision prediction in existing research. However, collisions
are only one type of risk in traffic scenarios. We believe a more generic
definition is required. In this work, we propose a novel driver-centric
definition of risk, i.e., risky objects influence driver behavior. Based on
this definition, a new task called risk object identification is introduced. We
formulate the task as a cause-effect problem and present a novel two-stage risk
object identification framework, taking inspiration from models of situation
awareness and causal inference. A driver-centric Risk Object Identification
(ROI) dataset is curated to evaluate the proposed system. We demonstrate
state-of-the-art risk object identification performance compared with strong
baselines on the ROI dataset. In addition, we conduct extensive ablative
studies to justify our design choices.Comment: Submitted to TPAM
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